People and Places

When one thinks of local women’s clothing shops, many may refer to one of the numerous boutiques that are dotted throughout Bardstown’s downtown. But Bloomfield is another Nelson County community that has its own locally owned clothing store.

Bloomfield, a small town of about 1,000 people, has had a history since it became incorporated in 1819. Fixtures such as Duncan’s Grocery, Delphia’s Beauty Shop, Bloomfield High School, and the Bloomfield Tobacco Festival have come and gone but still remain in the hearts, minds and photos of Bloomfield residents.

Marylou “Myrt” Muir Crume, who frequently shares information about Bloomfield with others, said she has been called the town’s historian, but that title doesn’t fit her.

St. Catharine College was exposed to a culture of peace and compassion recently, when seven Tibetan Buddhist monks passed through the area during their third tour of the United States.

The monks, who come from the Labrang Tashi Kyil Monastery in Dehradun, India, met with students, faculty and community members during a weeklong stay at the college to offer various demonstrations in chanting, talks of Buddhism, and sharing of skills.

Thirty years ago, Father Charles Strobel, pastor of Holy Name Catholic Church in Nashville, was involved with a soup kitchen frequented by homeless men who lived along the Cumberland River. When the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers bulldozed their camp of tarpaper shacks, they went to “the place of least resistance,” which was his church’s parking lot.

Since she was 5 years old, Emma Filiatreau has been learning about responsibility, hard work and sacrifice.

The St. Joe fifth-grader has been riding horses most of her life, starting out on trails with her grandfather Chris Ballard. Over the past few years, that passion has turned into a competitive skill, and Emma has won several competitions through the National Horse Reining Association.

As a Kentucky girl who loved horses and books, Suzanne Hayden could not have imagined at a young age the radical changes in direction her life and career would take.

She was an English teacher until she divorced her husband and followed her father into the oil business in Oklahoma. Then Hayden went to law school to be an oil and gas lawyer. But at the end of her first class, though, she suddenly understood she was meant for something else.